This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …

Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … retailing formats that have created many of the productivity gains in the United States. For many decades, the United States and …

, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than in the United States. Productivity levels are roughly similar in the … European Union and in the United States today. The main difference is that Europe has used some of the increase in productivity …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

-price frontier, attributes almost all the slowdown in total productivity to the rise in relative raw material prices. It is also … shown that part of the apparent productivity riddle has to do with the common use of double-deflated national accounting …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …